A local health trust has been told it needs to do more to improve safety following it's latest inspection.

The Care Quality Commission, which carried out the inspection earlier this year, told bosses that "there were not always enough staff to maintain safer staffing levels" and that staff "did not always record details of safeguarding concerns" in the manner they should.

However, the trust once again received a "good" overall rating from the CQC, which published its full report on Tuesday.

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, which already had an "outstanding" in some areas of care for people with learning disabilities and autism, had its mental health crisis services upgraded to "good" but its grading for its secure wards was dropped to "requires improvement".

The inspection, which took place between January 7 and February 15, also highlighted examples of "outstanding practice" in the areas of patient feedback and engagement, self-harm and suicide prevention work and the redesigning of acute pathways to reduce out of area transfers for admissions.

Part of the CQC report said: "We rated community health services for adults as requires improvement in safe, effective and well led. This was the third inspection where this core service has been rated as requires improvement, and at this inspection effective has gone down one rating from good to requires improvement.

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"This has led to an overall rating in community health services as requires improvement.

"There was improvement at our last inspection in the forensic and secure services leading to a rating of good overall. This improvement has not been sustained and has now been rated as requires improvement in safe and well led.

"Staff did not feel they were always consulted properly about changes to services. There were not always enough staff in all services."

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What the trust says

Michele Moran, chief executive of the trust, said: “To be acknowledged for the hard work we have done to maintain and improve the quality of our services is a wonderful accolade for the trust, and I would like to thank all of our staff who work tirelessly to deliver the best care possible.

"Together we have worked very hard to act upon feedback from previous inspections to ensure that we are learning and growing consistently in order to deliver high quality services in all of our areas.

Michele Moran, chief executive of the Humber NHS Foundation Trust

“To be recognised as “outstanding” in some key areas is absolutely fantastic and shows how far we have come.

“We recognise that there is more work to do, but I am confident the quality improvement work we are committed to as a whole organisation will make us as one of the best care providers in the region.”

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